Job Type

Full-time

Description

Would you like to join a rapidly growing and successful company?

Do you want to be a part of a team where customers say things like:

“I am amazed by how innovative this product is!”

Headquartered in Clifton, NJ, ClassLink is a leading education technology company serving schools around the world.

ClassLink empowers over 22 million students and staff with instant access to a library of 6,000+ single sign-on apps from in the classroom or at home.

ClassLink Analytics provides essential usage data, so instructors can measure engagement and leaders can make informed purchasing and training decisions.

ClassLink Roster Server and OneSync use automation and open standards to make rostering and provisioning easier, more secure, and less time-consuming.

The ClassLink team is a family of dedicated people who strive to make a difference in education. We do this by making and delivering great products. We rely on our 3 core values to lead us in our day to day, guide our company's actions, and serve as our cultural cornerstones. They are:

Strive to Grow

Deliver Worthwhile Experiences

Contribute with Heart

Job purpose: The Junior Data Engineer is essential to our OneData team, specializing in integrating data from multiple sources into our pipeline and extending REST APIs as required. This role includes contributing to new development projects and improving current processes.

Job Summary: We are seeking a Junior Data Engineer to join our team in crafting award-winning solutions for our clients. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with Data and Software Engineers to enhance the platform as new features are developed.

Responsibilities:

Develop new endpoints in a REST API serving a frontend application, ensuring they are performant and meet acceptance criteria.
Help establish new data sources for our pipeline using various data transfer methods, such as external APIs, SFTP files, or direct interactions with vendors.
Implement consistent testing across APIs and build test cases to cover ETL processes.
Work in a fast-paced, Agile/Scrum engineering environment and deliver incremental product software with high quality.
Support the development of highly scalable data management systems on AWS.
Extend data models for databases by adding new fields or tables and create corresponding migrations to ensure smooth schema updates and data consistency.

Requirements

Experience building applications or REST APIs with Python.
Proficiency in relational databases, preferably Postgres.
Experience working with a major cloud provider, preferably AWS.
You are a self-starter, who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment.
Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment.
Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes.
Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
Understanding of the fundamental technologies of the web: HTTP, SSL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSON.
Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field

It would be great if you have or are pursuing the following:

AWS Certifications

We prefer that you have experience with:

JIRA and Confluence
Visual Studio Code
FastAPI
SQLAlchemy or another ORM
AWS

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may be asked to perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization

We are a team of passionate people striving to help improve classroom learning.

We do this by making and delivering great products.

We also like to have fun along the way.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;

indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Salary Description

80,000-90,000